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Example sentences for "brigandish"

Lexicographically close words:
brigalow; brigand; brigandage; brigandine; brigandines; brigands; brigantine; brigantines; brige; brigge
  1. Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance.

  2. The brigandish guise which the Canaller so proudly sports; his slouched and gaily-ribboned hat betoken his grand features.

  3. As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jollyboat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled.

  4. Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.

  5. The brigandish youth who can contort the wildest is cheered on to renewed exertions, and the grisette who can kick the highest or do the most grotesque things is applauded to the echo.

  6. Indulging in the wildest vagaries--dressed in the most rakish and brigandish costume, he is scrupulously polite and intensely considerate.

  7. The mouth that had emitted a very gutteral "Ongtray" belonged to a man of small stature but brigandish appearance, who was seated at the smaller table eating industriously.

  8. Bertram, pushing back his brigandish hat in order the better to get a view, at arm's length, of his sketch and compare it with the original.

  9. The officer was wrapped in a heavy blanket or carriage lap-robe, spotted like a leopard skin, which gave him a brigandish air.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brigandish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.